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The European Union has moved from writing rules to enforcing them, sending its first formal requests for information to AI model providers under the AI Act. This marks a significant shift — the law is no longer just a policy document, it's an active regulatory instrument with real consequences for companies operating in Europe.
Closer to home, new data from YouGov paints a complicated picture of AI in the classroom. Around four in five teachers now use artificial intelligence at work, roughly double the figure from a year ago. But here's the catch — only about one in three say they're actually working fewer hours. The rest are filling that freed-up time with other tasks, raising a pointed question about whether technology alone can fix a workload crisis that may be structural.
And finally, Valve has had an unusual kind of breach — not a hack, but an oversight. Archivists discovered the company left a legacy infrastructure endpoint publicly accessible, and extracted somewhere between twelve and thirteen terabytes of old game files. Among the finds, early builds and assets from Half-Life Two Episode Three, a game that became one of gaming's most legendary what-ifs.
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